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DTCC calls for collaboration on blockchain
26 January 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Industry-wide collaboration is required to get the best out of distributed ledger technology, and necessary for modernising and simplifying the financial industry infrastructure, according to DTCC...

Tricky Q4 for BNY Mellon
25 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BNY Mellon has seen mixed results in its investment management business, with a slight 1 percent increase in assets under custody contending with a 4 percent slump in assets under management...

Hedge funds see positive 2015
25 January 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Last year was a relatively good one for hedge funds, which finished 2015 with a return of 2.42 percent net of fees, according to the Alternative Investment Management Association...

J.C Flowers purchases Chi-X APAC products
25 January 2016 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Private investment firm J.C. Flowers has agreed to acquire the trading venues Chi-X Japan and Chi-X Australia, and technology platform Chi-Tech Hong Kong from Chi-X Global...

Mixed bag of Q4 results for Northern Trust
22 January 2016 Chicago
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Northern Trust has seen an increase in assets under custody in its Q4 2015 results, however assets under management and custody and administration fees revealed more turbulent figures...

EC responds to ESMA passporting advice
22 January 2016 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The European Commission has responded to ESMA's advice on the application of the AIFMD passport to non-EU alternative investment funds and their managers...

BNP Paribas supporting €GCPlus market
21 January 2016 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BNP Paribas Securities Services has launched a clearing, settlement and custody service for clients trading euro cash liquidity through €GCPlus, a centrally cleared triparty repo-secured financing market...

APAC institutions unprepared for global FATCA
21 January 2016 Singapore
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Financial institutions in the Asia-Pacific region are unprepared for global tax reporting requirements, according to a report by Wouter Delbaere of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services...

Maitland receives licence for PERE sector
21 January 2016 Malta
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Maitland is now able to act as an alternative investment fund manager for private equity and real estate alternative investment funds...

Confluence grabs Casagrande for new role
21 January 2016 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Confluence has hired Gary Casagrande to the newly created role of global head of investor communications and expense solutions...

Luxembourg sees boost in real estate funds
20 January 2016 Luxembourg
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Luxembourg has seen an increase in domiciled real estate investment funds (REIFs), according to a survey from the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) and EY Luxembourg...

Linedata Longview gets an upgrade
20 January 2016 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Linedata has released a new edition of its Linedata Longview portfolio management platform for wealth managers...